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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including Grand Canyon and Joshua Tree national parks, and a few animals.

Cathy chose #1428.  I’m sure she’s seen these bison-cattle hybrids destroying meadows on the Kaibab National Forest along SR67 or sometimes they are in Grand Canyon National Park.  Fences don’t slow them down much.

Alan chose #6275.  Surrounded by boulders while camping at White Tank in Joshua Tree National Park.

Cheryl Ann chose #2705.  A place not far from her home, the Santa Rosa Mountains seen while camping in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.

Sue chose #2023, “for my possible next trip to somewhere in the deserts of Arizona, or at least the Mojave.”  If she hasn’t visited Toroweap already I’d highly recommend that.  Camp at Pipe Springs and drive the Tracker.  Though you might not want to stay for a sunset like this shot as the road is long and rough.  She gets a bonus shot as a soil scientist.  I helped as a volunteer with soil studies at Oregon Caves National Monument during the fall of 2003.

Jo chose #7450.  One of many Black-backed jackal seen at Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.

Sallie and Bill chose #610.  Buckskin Gulch slot canyon in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument near the Utah/Arizona border my first hike May 14, 2009.

Jodee and Bill chose #9932.  Looking down on House Rock Valley, Marble Canyon and clear to Navajo Mountain in the far distance from Marble View, one of my favorite camps on the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona.

Gypsy chose #1969, “a good year for memorable junior high music.”  Totally agree, however I was in high school.  Seems 2010 was a good year for visiting Toroweap overlook.  This shot looking down 3000’ to the Colorado River was taken minutes before the sunset shot above.

Jennifer chose #6767.  More Joshua Tree National Park boulders, two days after the above shot while camped in Jumbo Rocks.

Rita chose #0982.  First light view from my RV with snow on 9-21-15.  Bonus shot with the same number, a sunrise 9-21-15.

Sherry chose #2704.  Same view as above with rain on 7-4-14.

Diane and Nigel chose #406.  My first season working at the North Rim Grand Canyon I explored other nearby parks.  Like Zion National Park seen here 9-21-08.

Liberal Warrior chose #119.  A museum display of Ancestral Puebloan pottery at Mesa Verde National Park seen when working there the summer of 2005.

My choices from the summer of 1996.  First is the view from my government house looking down on the Columbia River, and on a clear day Mt Hood could be seen in the distance.  US Fish & Wildlife Service organized a kids fishing day at the Pierce National Wildlife Refuge at the base of Beacon Rock.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including South Africa, Grand Canyon, and the blast zone around Mt St Helens.

Jo chose #4128.  Believe it or not, I am standing on a clutch of ostrich eggs, and holding a feather because I’d just ridden an ostrich.

Cathy chose #4769.  Watching sunset across False Bay from my Moonglow balcony on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa was a true gift one day after my 2010 birthday.

Jennifer gets #4 for the number of words in her last comment.  A scanned print from March 1990 of a bald eagle sharing a tree with lots of smaller birds.  The Padilla Bay estuary in Washington was a favorite place for a nature fix not far from Bellingham where I went to Western Washington University.

Gypsy chose #0522, “Mays have been a very eventful month.”  Well this shot taken in an April marked an eventful month in 2014 towards the end of my third visit to South Africa.  Look closely for the four hippos seen in Pilanesberg Game Reserve.

Diane and Nigel chose #2705.  The magic of inversion seen at Grand Canyon from the North Rim Walhalla overlook.

Liberal Warrior gets #116 for the number of words in his first comment from last week.  I’m pretty sure this view into Mt St Helens’ blast zone and beyond is Clear Creek canyon, the green in the distance replanted.  Taken 12 years after the eruption during my summer 1992 season as a Forest Ranger.

Jeff chose #0602, “the date Fran returns from Ohio.”  And now she’s home.  Visiting the beach in Bandon, Oregon in 2014, was a going home for Berta who lived there for many years.  This twisted driftwood made a nice frame for a bit of ocean.  I like tree frames.

Rita chose #6324.  The Cottonwood Road in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah is a geologists’ dream.  But sometimes, the road is impassable.  (My favorite shot this week.)

Doris chose #528.  Early September storm clouds building over the drive north on SR67, away from the North Rim and through the old 2006 Warm Fire remains.

Sallie and Bill chose #6522.  Sunset over the Indian Ocean from Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa.

Alan chose #8335.  Grand Canyon view northeast from Moran Point on the South Rim taken on my 2015 birthday.  Because the Colorado River is out of sight, this is what he would describe as the “outer canyon”.

June 1989 was towards the end of my volunteer experience as an animal keeper at the California Living Museum (CALM).  It’s not easy to get a porcupine to pose.  As an animal keeper, I was in Spike’s enclosure feeding, watering, and scooping poop.  He would sit up for an ear of feed corn, and also allow a little scratch on his velvet soft nose.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including Grand Canyon and surrounding areas, Utah, Washington, and Mexico.

Cathy chose #0805, “for North Rim Heritage Days this year that I plan to catch.”  Hope the weather is better than this day watching the canyon from the North Rim’s Grand Lodge on 9-13-15.

Alan chose #2348.  Looking upstream from Toroweap overlook into the shadowy depths at the Colorado River, Grand Canyon National Park.

Liberal Warrior chose #1361.  Yet another rainy day at the North Rim this time looking at Grand Canyon from Point Imperial 9-13-09.  September is still monsoon season some years.

Rita chose #3333.  From a high overlook in Knysna along the Garden Route of South Africa, the Western Head jutting into the Indian Ocean.  From my first visit in 2010.

Diane and Nigel chose #2005.  That year I visited San Felipe, Mexico with Darlene who you can barely see in the toilet on the beach.  Was a posed shot.

Gypsy chose #1911.  Along the road to Toroweap, same trip as above.

Jodee and Bill chose #2826.  From a quick road trip in southeastern Utah during September 2015, the Manti-La Sal National Forest.  Red rock and forest makes a beautiful combination.

Jeff chose #528, “the local time when the unmanned Starlink docked with the International Space Station.”  Although not in space, this shot of the Cockscomb by my camp in southern Utah is other worldly.  As was the hike I did the next day in Wire Pass and Buckskin Gulch.

Sallie and Bill chose #672.  Sandstone Toadstool in Grand Staircase Escalante, Utah.  A short hike into breathtaking country.

My choices from May 1996 when I worked for Fish & Wildlife Service in Washington.  My office was located along the Little White Salmon River at the hatchery (first shot) and my government house was located across the road left from the Spring Creek Fish Hatchery along the Columbia River.

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